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Reefer Madness: The Musical Premiere - LA

David Toshiro Crane, At "Reefer Madness: The Musical" Opening Night Performance at The Whitley in Los Angeles, CA, USA on May 30 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Reefer Madness: The Musical Premiere - LA

David Toshiro Crane, At "Reefer Madness: The Musical" Opening Night Performance at The Whitley in Los Angeles, CA, USA on May 30 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Reefer Madness: The Musical Premiere - LA

J. Elaine Marcos, Anthony Norman, Patrick Ortiz, Claire Crause, Andre Joseph Aultmon, Thomas Dekker, Jane Papageorge, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Natalie Holt MacDonald, Nicole Parker, Alex Tho, Bryan Daniel Porter, David Toshiro Crane, At "Reefer Madness: The Musical" Opening Night Performance at The Whitley in Los Angeles, CA, USA on May 30 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Reefer Madness: The Musical Premiere - LA

J. Elaine Marcos, Anthony Norman, Patrick Ortiz, Claire Crause, Andre Joseph Aultmon, Thomas Dekker, Jane Papageorge, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Natalie Holt MacDonald, Nicole Parker, Alex Tho, Bryan Daniel Porter, David Toshiro Crane, At "Reefer Madness: The Musical" Opening Night Performance at The Whitley in Los Angeles, CA, USA on May 30 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Reefer Madness: The Musical Premiere - LA

J. Elaine Marcos, Anthony Norman, Patrick Ortiz, Claire Crause, Andre Joseph Aultmon, Thomas Dekker, Jane Papageorge, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Natalie Holt MacDonald, Nicole Parker, Alex Tho, Bryan Daniel Porter, David Toshiro Crane, At "Reefer Madness: The Musical" Opening Night Performance at The Whitley in Los Angeles, CA, USA on May 30 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Senate Hearings - Washington

Mark Toshiro Uyeda appears before a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing for his pending nomination to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Thursday, October 19, 2023. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Senate Hearings - Washington

Mark Toshiro Uyeda appears before a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing for his pending nomination to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Thursday, October 19, 2023. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Senate Hearings - Washington

Mark Toshiro Uyeda appears before a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing for his pending nomination to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, USA, Thursday, October 19, 2023. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Vice farm minister Kobayashi resigns

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshio Kobayashi (L), who has resigned as Japan's vice farm minister, and his successor Toshiro Shirasu attend a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7. Kobayashi had been criticized for not tackling the misuse of farm subsidies by a farmers' association, which forced Takehiko Endo to resign as farm minister on Sept. 4, only a week after he was appointed to the post.

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IPC, Tokyo 2020 officials shake hands in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiro Muto (R), director general of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, shakes hands with International Paralympic Committee Chief Executive Officer Xavier Gonzalez in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2014, following a press conference.

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IPC, Tokyo 2020 officials at press conference

TOKYO, Japan - International Paralympic Committee Chief Executive Officer Xavier Gonzalez (L) and Toshiro Muto, director general of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, give a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2014, after the first project review.

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Organizing panel for 2020 Paralympics, IPC hold joint meet

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiro Muto (2nd R), director general of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, talks with Xavier Gonzalez (R), chief executive officer of the International Paralympic Committee, during a joint session in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2014, to discuss progress in preparations for the event.

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2020 Tokyo Olympics CEO Muto speaks at interview

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiro Muto, chief executive officer of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, speaks at an interview in Tokyo on July 10, 2014, on upcoming challenges in the preparation of the summer games.

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Sharp plant in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Japanese Ambassador to Egypt Toshiro Suzuki (2nd from L front) receives an explanation during an opening ceremony for a refrigerator manufacturing plant of Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. in Quesna near Cairo on April 15, 2014.

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Tokyo 2020 executive board meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Executive Board of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games - (from L) Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, organizing committee president and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, organizing committee honorary president and Canon Inc. Chairman Fujio Mitarai, and organizing committee chief executive officer and Daiwa Institute of Research Chairman Toshiro Muto - pose for photos after a meeting where all 34 members of the executive board met on March 26, 2014.

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Tokyo launches 2020 Organizing Committee

TOKYO, Japan - Former Vice Finance Minister Toshiro Muto attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 24, 2014, as chief executive officer of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee, which was officially launched the same day.

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New nuclear test monitoring system

VIENNA, Austria - Lassina Zerbo (C), executive secretary of the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, and Toshiro Ozawa (R), ambassador at Japan's permanent mission to the international organizations in Vienna, attend a tape-cutting ceremony during an event marking the launch of a new system to detect radioactive substances from nuclear tests in Vienna, Austria, on Nov. 26, 2013. The new system for Atmospheric Transport Modeling has been installed at the headquarters of the preparatory commission through Japan's contribution of around $737,000, according to the commission.

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Teacher vows not to let students die from disaster

SENDAI, Japan - Toshiro Sato (L), a teacher at Onagawa Daiichi Junior High School in the coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, tells students at his school to come up with their own words as a "3.11 message" during an assembly for disaster prevention education on Feb. 15, 2013. Sato believes that not to forget what happened in the quake-tsunami disaster on March 11, 2011, is the best disaster prevention.

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Japan company at forefront of prosthetics

TOKYO, Japan - Prosthetics company Nakamura Brace Co. President Toshiro Nakamura holds a prosthetic leg made of local materials by a bamboo artisan in the Philippines, at the company's headquarters in Omori, Shimane Prefecture, on Oct. 8, 2010.

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Vice farm minister offers to resign over tainted-rice scandal

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Toshiro Shirasu, the top bureaucrat at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Shirasu has offered to resign in connection with his handling of a tainted-rice scandal, informed sources said.

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Ruling camp urges talks with opposition bloc over BOJ chief

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R) and members of his Cabinet stand up in acknowledgment at the House of Representatives on March 13 after the government-controlled lower house voted to approve the nomination of Deputy BOJ Governor Toshiro Muto as the next chief of the central bank. The ruling coalition called for direct talks with opposition to break the political deadlock as the opposition-controlled upper house had voted against the nomination.

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Upper house votes down gov't nomination of Muto as BOJ chief

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Democratic Party of Japan and other opposition members applaud on March 12 after the opposition-controlled House of Councillors voted down the government's nomination of Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Toshiro Muto as the central bank chief. The appointment must be approved by both houses of parliament. The government-controlled House of Representatives is expected to vote March 14.

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DPJ decides to reject Muto as next BOJ chief

TOKYO, Japan - An opposition Democratic Party of Japan panel on March 11 discusses the government's nomination of Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Toshiro Muto for the post of governor of the central bank. The party later formally decided to reject the nomination due to Muto's background as a bureaucrat even though he pledged in the Diet to ensure the BOJ's ''independence.''

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Fukuda does not understand why DPJ opposes Muto's nomination

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda tells reporters at his office on March 11 that he does not understand why the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan is against the government's proposal to appoint Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Toshiro Muto as the next central bank chief.

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BOJ chief nominee Muto vows to boost BOJ independence

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Toshiro Muto, the government's nominee to succeed outgoing BOJ chief Toshihiko Fukui, testifies before the Rules and Administration Committee of the House of Representatives on March 11. Muto said he will make efforts to boost the central bank's independence from the government as the opposition camp threatened to block his promotion over his career background as a former vice finance minister. (Pool photo)

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BOJ chief nominee Muto vows to boost BOJ independence

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Toshiro Muto, the government's nominee to succeed outgoing BOJ chief Toshihiko Fukui, testifies before the Rules and Administration Committee of the House of Representatives on March 11. Sitting behind him are Masaaki Shirakawa (L), professor at Kyoto University, and Takatoshi Ito (R), professor at the University of Tokyo, who have been nominated as BOJ deputy governors. Muto told the Diet that he will make efforts to boost the central bank's independence from the government as the opposition camp threatened to block his promotion over his career background as a former vice finance minister. (Pool photo)

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PM ready to talk to Ozawa over BOJ chief nomination: Machimura

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's Office on March 10, saying Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is ready to meet with Ichiro Ozawa, leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, over the government decision to appoint Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Toshiro Muto as successor to BOJ Gov. Toshihiko Fukui. The opposition camp, which opposes Muto's appointment, controls the House of Councillors, which must ratify the nomination.

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Gov't proposes BOJ No. 2 Muto as next central bank chief

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiro Muto, deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, arrives at the BOJ's headquarters in Tokyo on March 7. Later in the day, the government proposed to the Diet that he be appointed as the next central bank chief. (Pool photo)

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DPJ may reject gov't nominee for next BOJ chief: Ozawa

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Deputy Bank of Japan Governor Toshiro Muto, who has been proposed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party as successor to BOJ Governor Toshihiko Fukui. Democratic Party of Japan President Ichiro Ozawa indicated March 1 his party may reject the nominee of the ruling coalition for the next BOJ chief.

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Gov't to make final adjustments for Muto nomination as BOJ head

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Toshiro Muto, who is expected to be nominated as successor to outgoing Governor Toshihiko Fukui, sources familiar with the matter said Feb. 9.

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BOJ has no preset view on interest rate hike timing: Muto

KYOTO, Japan - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Toshiro Muto holds a news conference in Kyoto on Oct. 5 after meeting with local business leaders.

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Okinawan island testing bio-ethanol for greener future

TOKYO, Japan - Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshiro Nikai supplies ethanol-mixed gasoline at a gas station on Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 2.

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BOJ to raise interest rate at slow pace: deputy chief Muto

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan's Deputy Governor Toshiro Mutod makes a speech in Tokyo on July 21. He indicated that the central bank will raise interest rates further only at a slow pace while keeping a close eye on Japan's economic situation and price trends. ''We will slowly adjust interest rate levels by carefully assessing economic and price conditions,'' Muto said.

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CPI rise not enough to convince BOJ of policy shift: Muto

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Deputy Bank of Japan Governor Toshiro Muto speaks at a press conference in Matsuyama on Feb. 2

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BOJ likely to end ultra-loose monetary policy next year: Muto

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiro Muto, deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, makes a speech in Tokyo on Dec. 2. Muto indicated that the central bank is likely to terminate its ultra-easy monetary policy in the first half of 2006.

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BOJ deputy governor against lowering liquidity target for now

OITA, Japan - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Toshiro Muto speaks at a press conference in Oita on June 23.

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Shimoyama inducted into IPC's hall of fame

NEW YORK, Japan - Toshiro Shimoyama, an adviser to camera maker Olympus Corp. of Japan, holds up his trophy at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Jan. 25 after being inducted into the International Photographic Council's Hall of Fame. The IPC is a nongovernmental organization associated with the U.N.

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Deputy BOJ head hints at delay in beating deflation

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Bank of Japan Governor Toshiro Muto has indicated the Japanese economy may emerge from deflation later than the central bank has forecasted. Muto made the remarks in a recent interview with Kyodo News.

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Next BOJ chief Fukui vows to combat deflation

TOKYO, Japan - Toshihiko Fukui (L), designated the next governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), testifies at a House of Representatives Financial Affairs Committee session March 18, flanked by Kazumasa Iwata (2nd from L) and Toshiro Muto (R), both designated as deputy governors. Fukui suggested he will do his utmost to fight deflation and pull Japan out of its long economic doldrums.

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Diet approves Fukui as BOJ chief

TOKYO, Japan - The House of Councillors in a plenary session March 14 approved (from L to R) Toshihiko Fukui as the next Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor, and Toshiro Muto and Kazumasa Iwata as its deputy governors. The House of Representatives approved them the previous day.

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Ex-Vice Finance Minister Muto picked as BOJ deputy governor

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiro Muto, former vice finance minister, is surrounded by reporters at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 24 following reports that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has decided to name him deputy governor of the Bank of Japan.

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Univ. of Tokyo to set up museum research unit in Oct.

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiro Kamiuchi (R), a Hitachi Ltd. engineer, architect Makoto Kikuchi (C), and Tsuneo Ko, a producer at design firm Tanseisha Co., will serve as visiting professors at a new research unit of the University Museum of the University of Tokyo. The donation-funded unit will be launched Oct. 1 in partnership with Tanseisha to provide research into running museums.

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U.N. chief Annan meets with Japan's ruling coalition leaders

NEW YORK, United States - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan (L) shakes hands with Toshiro Nikai, secretary general of the New Conservative Party in Japan's ruling coalition, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 30. Looking on are the secretaries general of the other two coalition parties -- Taku Yamasaki of the Liberal Democratic Party (3rd from R) and Tetsuzo Fuyushiba of the New Komeito party (2nd from R).

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Film actor Mifune dies at 77

Leading Japanese film actor Toshiro Mifune, whose films include classics ''Rashomon'' and ''The Seven Samurai,'' dies of organ failure Dec. 24 night in a Tokyo hospital. He was 77. This photo was taken February 1990.

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Mayuzumi died

Toshiro MAYUZUMI (1929-1997), composer, is responsible for introducing electronic musin to Japan and his XYZ (1953) was the first Japanese work composed in the manner of musique concrete. Influenced by Buddhism and Asian cultures, in 1958 he composed the symphony ""Nehan "" (Nirvana) and in 1963 the cantata ""Keka"" (Repentance). In 1976 he composed an opera based on Mishima Yukio's novel ""Kinkakuji"" that was first performed by the Berlin Opera. Mayuzumi was also politically oriented, denying, like some right-wing Japanese politicians, Japan's wartime aggression. (Picture was taken in February 11, 1989 at ""Ceremony or Japanese National Foundation"".)

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Mayuzumi died

Toshiro MAYUZUMI (1929-1997), composer, is responsible for introducing electronic musin to Japan and his XYZ (1953) was the first Japanese work composed in the manner of musique concrete. Influenced by Buddhism and Asian cultures, in 1958 he composed the symphony ""Nehan "" (Nirvana) and in 1963 the cantata ""Keka"" (Repentance). In 1976 he composed an opera based on Mishima Yukio's novel ""Kinkakuji"" that was first performed by the Berlin Opera.

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Cauldron for Tokyo Olympics

Seiko Hashimoto (L), president of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, and its CEO Toshiro Muto wave to reporters at the National Stadium in Tokyo on April 25, 2022, when they visited to see the cauldron for the Tokyo Games held the previous year.

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Cauldron for Tokyo Olympics

Seiko Hashimoto (L), president of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, and its CEO Toshiro Muto visit the National Stadium in Tokyo on April 25, 2022, to see the cauldron for the Tokyo Games held the previous year.

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Cost of hosting Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics

Toshiro Muto, CEO of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, speaks to the press after a meeting of the committee's board of directors in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2021. The cost of hosting the Tokyo Games is expected to total 1.45 trillion yen ($12.7 billion), the committee said. (Pool photo)

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Cost of hosting Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics

Toshiro Muto, CEO of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, speaks to the press after a meeting of the committee's board of directors in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2021. The cost of hosting the Tokyo Games is expected to total 1.45 trillion yen ($12.7 billion), the committee said. (Pool photo)